President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday during a press conference in Chicago officially nominated former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as the next HHS secretary, Reuters reports. Daschle also will serve as director of a new White House Office of Health Reform (Reuters, 12/11).Jeanne Lambrew, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress [...]
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President-elect Obama Nominates Daschle As Head Of Hhs, Director Of New White House Office Of Health Reform
Published at Dezember 13th, 2008Zimbabwe’s Cholera Outbreak Puts Hiv-positive People At Risk, Health Officials Say
Published at Dezember 13th, 2008People living with HIV/AIDS are especially vulnerable to contracting cholera in Zimbabwe, which currently is experiencing an outbreak of the waterborne illness, Stanley Takaona, Deputy President of the Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Activist Union, said recently, IRIN/PlusNews reports. HIV-positive people with weakened immune systems have a more difficult time recovering from cholera and are at an increased [...]
Cdc Recommendations On Hiv Testing Not Followed ‘comprehensively,’ Too Few People Tested, Hiv Specialist Says In washington Post
Published at Dezember 9th, 2008CDC guidelines that recommend HIV testing be a part of routine care for people ages 13 to 64 — as well as annual testing for people at high risk of the virus, such as injection drug users or people with multiple sexual partners — are not being “followed comprehensively,” and “too few people are being [...]
U.n. Report Says Increased Hiv Testing, Treatment Can Increase Survival Rates Of Infants Living With Virus
Published at Dezember 4th, 2008Early treatment for HIV-positive infants can significantly increase their chances of survival, according to a report released Monday by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS and the United Nations Population Fund, the AP/Baltimore Sun reports (AP/Baltimore Sun, 12/1). The report also said that many children younger than age one are dying of AIDS-related illnesses before [...]
Cdc’s Hiv Testing Recommendations Not Being Followed, Studies Show
Published at November 22nd, 2008Two years after CDC recommended routine HIV testing for people ages 13 to 64, several studies presented at a recent conference indicate that the recommendations generally are not being followed, the Washington Post reports (Brown, Washington Post, 11/21). According to the Baltimore Sun, researchers at the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research — based at the [...]
Health Care Workers Face Increased Risk Of Mortality From Hiv, Other Bloodborne Diseases, Study Finds
Published at November 21st, 2008A new CDC study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine has found that health care workers face an increased risk of dying from bloodborne diseases, such as HIV, and related illnesses compared with workers in other fields, Reuters reports. The study also found that male health care workers face a more than [...]
Malawi Receives $20m Grant To Bolster Hiv Treatment, Testing Efforts
Published at November 7th, 2008A senior government official on Wednesday announced that Malawi has received a $20 million grant from the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to expand its HIV/AIDS treatment and testing program, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. The funding will provide additional antiretroviral drugs and HIV testing kits, according to Washington Kaimvi of Malawi’s National AIDS [...]
Winners Of Nobel Prize For Medicine Voice Concern For Future Of Hiv/aids Funding; Montagnier Discusses Therapeutic Vaccines
Published at Oktober 10th, 2008Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, two French scientists who jointly were awarded half of the Nobel Prize for medicine earlier this week, spoke with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday about the effect that the world financial crisis could have on global funding for HIV/AIDS, the AP/Hartford Courant reports. Both scientists voiced their concerns that [...]
Cdc Releases Updated Estimates About Hiv Prevalence In U.s.; Agency Says 1.1 Million People Living With Virus
Published at Oktober 3rd, 2008CDC on Friday in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released updated estimates of HIV prevalence in the U.S., saying that 1.1 million people were living with the virus at the end of 2006, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, the increase in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. [...]
Newspapers Examine Efforts, Reaction To Easing Ban On Hiv-positive Visitors To U.s.
Published at Oktober 2nd, 2008Some HIV/AIDS advocates are “being cautious with their optimism” regarding new immigration rules for HIV-positive visitors as well as HHS efforts to remove HIV from the list of diseases barring entry into the U.S., the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Fulbright, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/2). A law that made foreigners living with HIV/AIDS inadmissible in the [...]